[BURNT OFFERINGS (1976)]

1 hour ago, LornaHansonForbes said:

I think DONALD SUTHERLAND or ALBERT FINNEY would've been better for the part of THE FATHER in BURNT OFFERINGS than OLIVER REED

Yes, but they'd have expected way too much money...

[BURNT OFFERINGS (1976)]

4 hours ago, Janet0312 said:

What about Trilogy of Terror? That's a made for TV movie directed by Dan Curtis, featuring Karen Black.

Love it! 

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4 hours ago, SweetSue said:

And I just think it's super cool lol

Well both of those bands were unusual then for being "African American" PUNK, most of the bands were white artists.  BAD BRAINS were always bad ****. 

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4 hours ago, SweetSue said:

And I just think it's super cool lol

Of course.  Check out the BUZZCOCKS link ...I've been listening to  that lately... awesome Brit Punk, one of the earliest, most refined...

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On 7/21/2021 at 12:37 AM, Allhallowsday said:

Many wonderful actresses have bee named and now the thread is 3 pages...  these were the three I wrote down:

GENA ROWLANDS

MARSHA MASON

KIM NOVAK

I quote myself because I wanted to mention favorites that had not been... but, there is INGRID BERGMAN ...

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5 hours ago, NoShear said:

Los Angeles punk was my youth scene during the early 1980s, Allhallowsday.

I think the first truly Punk record I bought was Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables ... I wish I'd owned Los Angeles ...

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^ You guys impress me, I didn't think anybody listened to classic Punk like BAD BRAINS or DEATH...

BUZZCOCKS Singles Going Steady 

 

[In Honor of Halloween - Movies that Scared You but Weren't Classified as "horror"]

4 hours ago, sewhite2000 said:

The Vanessa Redgrave-starrring Isadora was a movie I rented from Blockbuster in college and watched alone. I was on a kick where I was trying to watch all the Oscar-nominated performances of the past 20 years. I don't remember anything about the movie now other than the ending, and this being a few years before home Internet, I had no advanced knowledge of how Duncan's life turned out. The ending of the movie was genuinely upsetting to me.

I had a similar experience when I rented Looking for Mr. Goodbar.

Agreed. 

THE BIGGEST DANCER IN THE WORLD was directed by KEN RUSSELL and though faithful to the accident, just like the VANESSA version, BIGGEST DANCER was filmed in black and white, sought to evoke the era with its styling (not the other) starkness, and most importantly, the makeup was ghostly white like silent actors with a recording of "Bye Bye Blackbird" echoing... and the trickle of black blood from the mouth... the other one is small potatoes. 

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On 10/19/2021 at 4:46 AM, NoShear said:

..and speaking of "...the rabbit hole of weird 60s psychedelic..."

I had that GREAT SOCIETY record on vinyl.  GRACE brought with her the only 2 top 40 hits AIRPLANE ever had.   Meanwhile, the hits helped but they came up out of SFO at the perfect moment for AOR.  I love JEFFERSON AIRPLANE. 

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19 hours ago, _Broadway_ said:

I have recently rediscovered my love for Freddie and the Dreamers.

Cool.  Some nice records. 

[In Honor of Halloween - Movies that Scared You but Weren't Classified as "horror"]

1 hour ago, Citizen Ed said:

Kid's movie my tightly clinched ****!

Based on ROALD DAHL's even darker book (Charlie And The Chocolate Factory) I love performances and at least one song, but that movie is neither scary nor very good.  I'd give it a good.  But I do think PETER OSTRUM is perfect as Charlie, and I LOVE GENE WILDER and JACK ALBERTSON !! 

[In Honor of Halloween - Movies that Scared You but Weren't Classified as "horror"]

13 hours ago, Mr. Gorman said:

Jeepers, CHAYA, I can think of a bundle of movies classified as 'Horror' or 'Suspense/Horror' that didn't scare me in any way . . . but trying to come up with a 'Non-Horror' movie that did scare me in one way or another is tough sledding!  

None of these are "Horror" but HORRIFYING. 

GERMANIA ANNO ZERO (1948)  

TWO WOMEN (1960)  

I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE (1978)

 

 

[In Honor of Halloween - Movies that Scared You but Weren't Classified as "horror"]

Isadora Duncan, the Biggest Dancer in the World (1966)  Shown on a NYC broadcast around 1969, it was made for BBC TV.  I haven't seen it since.  But I will never forget the ending and how it had frightened me.  

[BURNT OFFERINGS (1976)]

1 hour ago, Mr. Gorman said:

@ALLHALLOWS:  I believe 'Sepiatone' was responding to SEEDS OF EVIL -- whose plot is about plant-based horror. 

Yes of course, just bustin' his chops...

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1 hour ago, Mr. Gorman said:

BURNT OFFERINGS had a scene or two

Two I think, one all DAED... then later BLOOMIN'...

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9 hours ago, Toto said:

I found the scene where the dad is playing with his son in the pool then starts abusing the son and almost drowning him really disturbing.  The transition from play to violence is so sudden.  Oliver Reed as an actor can really play a character with simmering tension.  His portrayal of Bill Sykes in "Oliver" was dark and really good.

I thought Burnt Offerings was good but not great but I agree with others that it's got one of the most surprising endings.  I didn't see it coming.

That kid goes back into the pool ALONE with the previously murderous poppy catatonic immobile on a lawn chair watching and the possessed MOM jumps in the pool to save her son from his 2nd near-drowning in the same pool...  the 2nd time, there was a tsunami in the pool... OLIVER quakes rigidly... catatonically immobilized... uh...

[BURNT OFFERINGS (1976)]

12 minutes ago, Sepiatone said:

Personally, MY favorite "plant based" horror is.....

Uh... BURNT OFFERINGS has plant based Horror...?

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6 hours ago, Toto said:

His portrayal of Bill Sykes in "Oliver" was dark and really good

One of the strong-points of the film is his performance... any version of Oliver Twist has to have an intimidating Bill Sykes. 

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1 hour ago, unwatchable said:

mosh pits

Reminds me of my youth, but I avoided them... though I was practically in one front and center at (of all things) a PRETENDERS concert... !

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By the way, over at Bad movies my best friend there and I do not agree about the flick... he loves it, I don't... But, it's so BAD, I kind of enjoy it...

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I often am interested to hear whatever a TCM host offers as background info.  But the camera pans left . . . (she's talking, I'm interested) . . . camera pans right . . .  what the...?

[BURNT OFFERINGS (1976)]

4 hours ago, Sepiatone said:

SO.........THAT'S what he was washing down with all that BOOZE!   

Sepiatone

'Zactly what I thought!

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45 minutes ago, TopBilled said:

GASLIGHT (1944)

This film is so well remembered, that it's title has been verbalized... GASLIGHT remains fascinating not only for INGRID, but CHARLES BOYER as a villain !  (Love him too.)

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40 minutes ago, TopBilled said:

STROMBOLI (1950)

That is a stark downer of a film... like others of ROSSELILNI of that time,  painful stories of displacement.  I don't think I'd recommend it to everybody... maybe nobody.   Fascinating, but not comfortable.